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Archelaus

Ἀρχέλαος

(Ἀρχέλαος), king of SPARTA, 7th of the Agids, son of Agesilaus I., contemporary with Charilaus, with whom hetook Aegys, a town on the Arcadian border, said to have revolted, but probably then first taken. (Paus. 3.2 Plut. Lyc. 5; Euseb. Praep. 5.32.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.